The FlashReport has gone through a little bit of site construction — it’s now wider than it used to be, as when it was first created, the "norm" for websites was more narrow. The "wider" FR means that more content can appear on the page. If you are having trouble with the new formatting (primarily Firefox and Safari users), our technical experts tell us that you can resolve this by "clearing the cache" on your browser for this site. How do you do this? On a PC you press CONTROL-R and on a Mac you press COMMAND-R. On the main page, we’ve used this "wider" space to place a new column inside of the main links area — this column, which you cannot miss, allows us to provide links to FR’s Facebook and Twitter Pages, highlight a "Video Of The Day" and we have a new tool for you to use that allows you as a user to easily see more information. We call the new tool the "Blog Tracker" and when you first see it, it is always showing the feed from FR’s Blog — so you can see what… Read More

***BREAKING NEWS*** (Are you signed up for FR’s Twitter Feed? We break news there first). While it breaks our hearts, truly, to deliver such bad news to California’s Democrat State Controller and Union-Tool John Chiang, his opportunity for an easy road to re-election ends, literally, right now.

I am pleased to make an exclusive announcement that conservative State Senator Tony Strickland will be seeking the Republican Party’s nomination for State Controller. Strickland, as readers… Read More

The following column from the Honorable Alexia Deligianni was sent over from the Poizner for Governor campaign. Alexia is an elected Board Member of the Orange Unified School Districtand also serves as a Vice President of the California Republican Assembly…

Steve Poizner: The Choice For Values Voters By The Honorable Alexia Deligianni California needs a leader with a moral compass, one who isn’t afraid to express his beliefs and who stands by core conservative social values. A leader who knows that… Read More

From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail… How Green Is Brown? LOS ANGELES — Jerry Brown wants to be governor of California again and is making jobs and industrial revival a centerpiece of his election campaign. Unfortunately for Mr. Brown, these themes conflict with an important piece of unfinished business in his current job as California attorney general. Mr. Brown has locked horns with conservative activists who are hoping to push a pro-jobs ballot initiative to suspend the state’s global warming law, known as AB-32, until… Read More

Had to read this twice. House Republicans complained for weeks than many of Obama’s political appointeesto the US Justice Dept —defended terrorists. In fact, Congressmen claimed that Eric Holder and Obama were stacking the Justice Dept with top officials sympathetic to "enemy combatants."The problem is simply conflict of interest. Given inside knowledge of terrorist strategies, what are these lawyers doing in top Justice positions? Seriously, whose side are they on, is a fair question.

You can’t make this up. This is truly stranger than fiction.

So here it is from today’s LA Times, word for word about the Sympathetic Seven :

" The Obama appointees identified Wednesday:

Jonathan Cedarbaum, in the Office of Legal Counsel, and Eric Columbus, who works under the deputy attorney general, were part of a legal defense team for Bosnian Algerian detainees and brought a case to the Supreme Court that resulted in the right of captives to challenge their detention.

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[Cross-posted from RedCounty.com]

"My research has taken me on a frequently unpredictable, always fascinating, odyssey. Like most good journeys, I did not end up quite where I thought I would, nor did I take the path I thought I might. Where I had anticipated concluding that business must play an ever-growing role if we are to adequately address the education concerns of our nation, I have ended by deciding that although business can and must play a vital role, it also must be necessarily limited. Where I began as a proponent of “States’ Rights” in education, I have ended by believing that we will never meet our own expectations of public education unless the federal government is willing to play a consistent, long-term role; unless education truly becomes a matter of national policy, not just a matter of national rhetoric."

These words were written by Carly Fiorina in the introduction to her 1989 doctoral dissertation for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which came into this blogger’s possession a short time ago. Later this afternoon, Iwill post here at Red County the entire dissertation.

Entitled… Read More

From today’s Wall Street Journal Political Diary E-mail…

Stark, Staring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi showed her true liberal colors when she briefly gave the nod to one of Congress’s most vocal liberals to replace scandal-ridden Charlie Rangel as chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee. But sober second thoughts have now prevailed and Mr. Stark’s reign ended before it began. The unannounced reason was undoubtedly a revolt by saner members at this morning’s closed caucus meeting. Reports say that Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen… Read More

A FR reader brought to our attention that a local network news station in Sacramento, Channel 13 (the CBS affiliate), is running a video story here and a print story (below) that makes some… startling… observations about some circumstances surrounding Senator Ashburn’s arrest for Driving Under the Influence last evening… We’ll contact the Senator’s office to see if they have any comment on this CBS story…

Anti-Gay Lawmaker At Gay Club Before DUI Arrest CBS – 13 – Sacramento Sources tell CBS13 a state senator from Southern California was arrested for allegedly driving drunk after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown… Read More